Cecilie Ore

Cecilie Ore (born Oslo, 19 July 1954) is a Norwegian composer whose career is associated with electroacoustic music and with reflection on musical time. She studied piano at the Norwegian State Academy of Music and in Paris between 1974 and 1981, after which she turned to composition.

Between 1981 and 1986 she completed her training at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht and with Ton de Leeuw at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. During the 1980s she gained international recognition for several electroacoustic works: an honourable mention at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition in 1985 for Im-Mobile, and first and second prizes at the International Electroacoustic Music Tribune of 1988 for Etapper ('Stages'). That same year she received the Norwegian Composers' Society prize for work of the year for Porphyre, as well as a Norwegian state grant for artists.

Towards the end of the decade her interest centred on the problem of time in music, which crystallised in the tetralogy Codex temporis. Among her orchestral works is Nunc et nunc (1994), commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Ore frequently uses the computer as a compositional tool, and her music, of strict constructivism and austere sonic universe, shows a marked modernist character.